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Assume that a target is known to be present at an unknown point among a finite set of locations in the plane. We search for it using a mobile robot that has imperfect sensing capabilities. It takes time for the robot to move between…

Simultaneous use of high-end wearable wireless devices like smart glasses is challenging in a dense indoor environment due to the high nature of interference. In this scenario, the millimeter wave (mmWave) band offers promising potential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Kiran Venugopal , Robert W. Heath

Reliable localization is an essential capability for marine robots navigating in GPS-denied environments. SLAM, commonly used to mitigate dead reckoning errors, still fails in feature-sparse environments or with limited-range sensors. Pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ivana Collado-Gonzalez , John McConnell , Jinkun Wang , Paul Szenher , Brendan Englot

This paper presents an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) approach to localize a mobile robot with two quadrature encoders, a compass sensor, a laser range finder (LRF) and an omni-directional camera. The prediction step is performed by employing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-05 T. T. Hoang , P. M. Duong , N. T. T. Van , D. A. Viet , T. Q. Vinh

This paper considers the problem to plan mobile sensor networks for target localization task in GPS-denied environments. Most researches on mobile sensor networks assume that the states of the sensing agents are precisely known during their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-25 Youngjae Min , Soon-Seo Park , Han-Lim Choi

The massive exploitation of robots for industry 4.0 needs advanced wireless solutions that replace less flexible and more costly wired networks. In this regard, millimeter-waves (mm-waves) can provide high data rates, but they are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Cristian Tatino , Nikolaos Pappas , Di Yuan

We report a globally-optimal approach to robotic path planning under uncertainty, based on the theory of quantitative measures of formal languages. A significant generalization to the language-measure-theoretic path planning algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2010-08-24 Ishanu Chattopadhyay , Anthony Cascone , Asok Ray

Envisioned for fifth generation (5G) systems, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications are under very active research worldwide. Although pencil beams with accurate beamtracking may boost the throughput of mmWave systems, this poses great…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Rafail Ismayilov , Megumi Kaneko , Takefumi Hiraguri , Kentaro Nishimori

In practical applications, the unpredictable movement of obstacles and the imprecise state observation of robots introduce significant uncertainties for the swarm of robots, especially in cluster environments. However, existing methods are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Peng Liu , Pengming Zhu , Zhiwen Zeng , Xuekai Qiu , Yu Wang , Huimin Lu

This work presents a distributionally robust Kalman filter to address uncertainties in noise covariance matrices and predicted covariance estimates. We adopt a distributionally robust formulation using bicausal optimal transport to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Bingyan Han

We present an approach for safe motion planning under robot state and environment (obstacle and landmark location) uncertainties. To this end, we first develop an approach that accounts for the landmark uncertainties during robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Antony Thomas , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Marco Baglietto

5G-based mmWave wireless positioning has emerged as a promising solution for autonomous vehicle (AV) positioning in recent years. Previous studies have highlighted the benefits of fusing a line-of-sight (LoS) 5G positioning solution with an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Qamar Bader , Sharief Saleh , Mohamed Elhabiby , Aboelmagd Noureldin

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication links for 5G cellular technology require high beamforming gain to overcome channel impairments and achieve high throughput. While much work has focused on estimating mmWave channels and designing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Stephen G. Larew , David J. Love

We study the problem of bipedal robot navigation in complex environments with uncertain and rough terrain. In particular, we consider a scenario in which the robot is expected to reach a desired goal location by traversing an environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kasidit Muenprasitivej , Jesse Jiang , Abdulaziz Shamsah , Samuel Coogan , Ye Zhao

Mobile robots are often tasked with repeatedly navigating through an environment whose traversability changes over time. These changes may exhibit some hidden structure, which can be learned. Many studies consider reactive algorithms for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Florence Tsang , Tristan Walker , Ryan A. MacDonald , Armin Sadeghi , Stephen L. Smith

This document presents the study of the problem of location and trajectory that a robot must follow. It focuses on applying the Kalman filter to achieve location and trajectory estimation in an autonomous mobile differential robot. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Sendey Vera , Luis Chuquimarca , Douglas Plaza

A new path planning method for Mobile Robots (MR) has been developed and implemented. On the one hand, based on the shortest path from the start point to the goal point, this path planner can choose the best moving directions of the MR,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Hoc Thai Nguyen , Hai Xuan Le

Emerging wireless communication systems will be characterized by a tight coupling between communication and positioning. This is particularly apparent in millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communications, where devices use a large number of antennas…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Gabriel E. Garcia , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Eleftherios Karipidis , Henk Wymeersch

In this paper, we give a double twist to the problem of planning under uncertainty. State-of-the-art planners seek to minimize the localization uncertainty by only considering the geometric structure of the scene. In this paper, we argue…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Gabriele Costante , Christian Forster , Jeffrey Delmerico , Paolo Valigi , Davide Scaramuzza

This paper aims to improve the performance and positioning accuracy of a robot by using the particle filter method. The laser range information is a wireless navigation system mainly used to measure, position, and control autonomous robots.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Rashid Ali , Dil Nawaz Hakro , Yongping He , Wenpeng Fu , Zhiqiang Cao